Feds: 2nd Cali Man Laundered $560,000 Stolen From Bergen Man, $285,000 In Gov’t Loan Scheme/strong>
Jerry DeMarco, 27 March 2021
A second California man has been charged in an email scam that cost a Bergen County property owner $560,000 – and there could be more, federal authorities said.
Anthony Debose Hannah, 57, controlled an account where co-conspirator Eric Bullard wired $230,000 of the money, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said.
Bullard, 59, of Los Angeles had hacked an email account at a law firm representing the victim, then wrote to the client with instructions to wire the $560,000 into an escrow account identified as “Eric’s Commercial LLC,” Honig said.
The day the transfer was posted, Bullard was seen on surveillance footage withdrawing $96,275 in 10 separate transactions from a bank, the U.S. attorney said.
That same day, he also transferred three large sums of money from the “Eric’s Commercial” account to others, Honig said.
One of those accounts, “Anthony Property Management & Development,” was solely controlled by Hannah, of Moreno Valley, California, she said.
Here’s where things take a twist: On June 15, 2020, $230,000 was transferred from the Anthony Property Management account to another business account that Honig said doesn’t appear controlled by either Hannah or Bullard.
